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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:27:06 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Order of files with 'cp'
Message-ID:  <4380DC1A.9030201@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051120192914.GC19572@uk.tiscali.com>
References:  <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com> <437F7E22.5050800@freebsd.org> <20051120192914.GC19572@uk.tiscali.com>

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Brian Candler wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:33:54AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>Brian Candler wrote:
>>
>>>I've noticed on FreeBSD-5.4 and -6.0 that the order in which 'cp' copies
>>>multiple files does not match the order they're given on the command line.
>>
>>My suggestion:  Have 'cp' call fts_open once for each
>>command-line argument, ....
> 
> Erm, but that just undoes the reason for calling fts_open with mastercmp in
> the first place, which is to get it to pick files before directories (or
> vice versa, as its behaviour seems to be) as an 'optimisation'.

Why is that an optimization?

I thought the whole point of this thread was that users
expect utilities to process the command-line arguments
in the order they're given.

Tim




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